Economic versus Cultural Differences
Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4977136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kylie Baldwin (0000-0001-7256-0312, Princeton University), Kate Baldwin, John D Huber (0000-0002-2209-7785, Columbia University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 644-662 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055410000419 |
| OpenAlex | W2116303700 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 209 |
| References cited | 49 |
Arguments about how ethnic diversity affects governance typically posit that groups differ from each other in substantively important ways and that these differences make effective governance more difficult. But existing cross-national empirical tests typically use measures of ethnolinguistic fractionalization (ELF) that have no information about substantive differences between groups. This article examines two important ways that groups differ from each other-culturally and economically-and assesses how such differences affect public goods provision. Across 46 countries, the analysis compares existing measures of cultural differences with a new measure that captures economic differences between groups: between-group inequality (BGI). We show that ELF, cultural fractionalization (CF), and BGI measure different things, and that the choice between them has an important impact on our understanding of which countries are most ethnically diverse. Furthermore, empirical tests reveal that BGI has a large, robust, and negative relationship with public goods provision, whereas CF, ELF, and overall inequality do not
Affect (linguistics · Corporate governance · Cultural diversity · Demographic economics · Development economics · Diversity (politics · Economics · Empirical evidence · Empirical research · Ethnic group · Fractionalization · Inequality · Microeconomics · Political science · Public economics · Public good · Sociology · Corruption and Economic Development · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 13,93 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 207 |